'Waif of Ocean City' Returns 30 Years Later as Filmmaker

Joey Eulo credits Ocean City's Mark Soifer with helping to turn his life around.

Joey Eulo was a hungry, brash 9-year-old with no father and an absentee mother. The streets of Ocean City were his home in the early 1980s, and he walked every crack of the island, avoided school, and tried to earn money for food to feed his sister.  Eulo worked odd jobs such as selling newspapers. One day he wandered into Mark Soifer’s public relations office at City Hall, and fate wandered into his wayward life. There, Eulo found the identity he so greatly needed.          "Mark gave me a firm handshake, sat me down and talked to me like I mattered," Eulo said. "He gave me his undivided attention. No one had ever done that for me. I was searching for that attention. He acted as a father figure to me. He believed in me, said I was a smart…

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